Brad Giles

Interested in a practical, highly engaging speaker for your next event? Brad has a reputation for his passion, energy and highly engaging content with actionable takeaways for delegates. 

Brad is known for his invigorating presentations about powerful and enduring organisational and personal change, and a down-to-earth approach that’s both provocative and practical. And he does love a good laugh.

A strategic advisor and coach to CEOs and executive teams internationally, he is relentless and passionate in his pursuit to help leaders of organisations to become more effective, and make their effort count for the most. Brad is the author of Onboarded and Made to Thrive, a highly praised book described as the CEO Playbook, a step-by-step handbook on how to take your impact as a leader to a higher level; and a contributor to Scaling Up (Mastering the Rockefeller Habits 2.0).

Here are two of Brad's popular speaking topics.

Onboarded: How to bring new hires to the point where they are effective, faster.

Every organisation carries an enormous hidden debt called onboarding debt and it represents the difference between what people should understand and what they actually understand about the cultural expectations, technical expectations, and managers’ expectations that define how to succeed in their role. This onboarding debt manifests itself through lost profits, low retention, poor cultures and frustrated leaders. But it doesn’t need to be this way. 

In this practical, interactive and engaging keynote, topics covered include:

• The structural reasons that lead most companies to inadequate onboarding
• How most companies complete onboarding just before the real impact begins
• Why onboarding debt is the real cause of cultural issues in many firms
• How to calculate the cost of inadequate onboarding to your firm
• How to improve productivity, retention, profitability and culture using onboarding
• The two main tools to use for effective onboarding

• Based on Brad’s new book, Onboarded.
• This is Brad’s most popular session.
• This session runs 60-90 minutes.
• Best for audiences of 40-500 people.

Made to Thrive: The five roles to evolve beyond your leadership comfort zone

Mastering five essential roles can help managers and leaders increase the focus, clarity and perspective they need to have more impact in the work they do.

In this practical, interactive and engaging keynote, participants:

• Understand the vicious issue that keeps them busy, overwhelmed and exhausted.
• Learn the five results that great leaders produce, which always elude good leaders (and what to do about it!).
• Get to know the five roles of a leader, and how they rate on each of the five roles.
• And, of course, a list of priorities, tools and actions – personalised to their situation – so they can focus on the work that matters.

• Based on Brad's book Made to Thrive
• This session runs 60-90 minutes.
• Best for audiences of 40-500 people.